Tag: Active Learner

Designing a ‘successful’ MOOC is one thing. Making a MOOC ‘successful’ is something completely different. Much has been written by far better and more eloquent people than me (here and here and here and here and here) Read More …

I was very surprised to find I’ve been nominated for the UK Blog Awards, 2015! Voting is open from Monday 10th November, 2014, until Monday 1st December, 2014. I’ve been nominated in two categories, please Read More …

This article by Austin Fitzhenry asks a simple question: “can students teach their lecturers a thing or two?” Go read the full article on the Times Higher Education website, it is very good, extremely well Read More …

Next week is the 2014 Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference in Dublin. The programme looks very comprehensive and has 6 streams in motion, which means it’s going to be very difficult to attend and cover Read More …

Whilst reading the excellent JISC Inform newsletter (I’ve not paid this enough attention in the past – I will from now on!) I read the article on ‘social media for engagement’. Go read it now! Read More …

This great little video highlights some of the themes and discussions that are going on (and have been going on for some time) around education and how ‘we’ can improve it from the ‘one size Read More …

IBM have released five videos – “In the future, everything will learn” detailing their belief in where technology will take us in the next five years. In ‘The classroom will learn you’ IBM believe that Read More …

When I read this article – “Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand” – from the Harvard Business Review (HBR) I couldn’t help but make similarities between ‘brand’ and ‘learning’, between ‘customers’ and ‘students’. Read More …